Flea Theater Extends AMERICAN SEXY Thru 3/6

Due to popular demand, The Flea Theater has added six performances of AMERICAN SEXY, the controversial new play by Trista Baldwin, directed by Mia Walker, and featuring The Bats.

Described as "strong and convincing-and brought to life with total commitment" (The New Yorker), the production was originally set to play a limited engagement through February 22, but will now run until March 6 at The Flea, where it began performances on January 15.

"A polemical morality tale for the age of MTV's Skins" (The New York Times), AMERICAN SEXY follows four college students en route to a carefree fling in Sin City, when an unexpected stop at the Grand Canyon reveals depths for which none of them are prepared.

The show features the "uniformly fine performances" (Back Stage) of Satomi Blair, Scott Morse, Nicky Schmidlein, and Ron Washington. The design team includes Kate Sinclair Foster (set), Joe Chapman (lighting), Katie Hartsoe (costumes), and Colin Whitley (sound).

Trista Baldwin's plays include SAND (Women's Project), FORGETTING (PlayLabs, Workhaus Collective), CHICKS WITH DICKS and the award winning PATTY RED PANTS. A recipient of two Jerome Fellowships and a McKnight Advancement Grant, Trista Baldwin's work has been developed and produced by companies including The Guthrie, Women's Project, The Lark, New Georges, Bay Area Playwrights' Foundation, Bricolage, Perishable Theater, Hypothetical Theatre Company, La Mama, HERE, Urban Stages, Synchronicity, Live Girls!, Eternal Spiral Project, The Red Eye, Bloomington Playwrights' Project, Circle X, The Empty Space Theatre and National New Play Network. Currently in development is MESUJIKA DOE a bi-lingual, cross cultural piece created collaboratively with Tokyo theatre artist Shirotama Hitsujiya of Yubiwa Hotel. Workshops of MESUJIKA DOE have been presented by Saison's Morishta studios in Tokyo, Japan and The Playwrights' Center of Minneapolis. Work culminates in premieres in San Francisco and Tokyo beginning May 2012. Other upcoming international productions include the Chilean premiere of the original DOE in the 2011 Santiago a Mil festival. A native of the woods of Washington State, and sometime-New Yorker, she currently makes her home in Minneapolis, where she teaches playwriting and screenwriting at SCSU, is a co-founder of the Workhaus Collective, a Core Alum of The Playwrights' Center, and mother of Ila. Her work is published by Heinemann and Playscripts.

Mia Walker hails from Washington, D.C. She recently graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University, where she studied under Diane Paulus at the American Repertory Theater. Mia has trained at The Berkshire Theatre Festival, American Conservatory Theater, NYU Tisch, and Vassar Powerhouse. Mia will be assistant directing for Ms. Paulus in ART's upcoming production of PROMETHUES BOUND (book by Steven Sater, music by Serj Tankian).

The Flea Theater, under Artistic Director Jim Simpson and Producing Director Carol Ostrow, is one of New York's leading off-off-Broadway companies. Winner of a Special Drama Desk Award for outstanding achievement, Obie Awards and an Otto for political theater, The Flea has presented nearly 100 plays and numerous dance and live music performances since its inception in 1996. Past productions include the premieres of Anne Nelson's The Guys; six plays by A.R. Gurney (Post Mortem, O Jerusalem, Screenplay, Mrs. Farnsworth, A Light Lunch and Office Hours); Mac Wellman's Cellophane and Two September; Roger Rosenblatt's Ashley Montana Goes Ashore... and The Oldsmobiles; Elizabeth Swados' JABU and Kaspar Hauser; Karen Finley's Return of the Chocolate Smeared Woman; Adam Rapp's Bingo with the Indians; Will Eno'sOh, The Humanity and other exclamations; Dawn by Thomas Bradshaw; The Great Recession, Jonathan Reynolds' Girls in Trouble, Bathsheba Doran's Parents' Evening, and most recently the holiday hit Looking at Christmas by Steven Banks.

Through February 22, AMERICAN SEXY plays Thursdays and Saturdays at 9pm, Sundays and Mondays at 7pm, with an added performance Tuesday, February 22 at 7pm. Starting February 25, the show plays Fridays and Saturdays at 9pm and Sundays at 7pm. The Flea is located at 41 White Street between Church and Broadway, three blocks south of Canal, close to the A/C/E, N/R/Q, 6, J/M/Z and 1 subway lines. Tickets are $20 and are available by calling 212-352-3101 or online at www.theflea.org.